A Statistical Analysis of the Campus-Based Open Access Fund at Boston College

IF 0.3 4区管理学 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library Trends Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/lib.2022.0003

Jiebei Luo, John O'connor, Sarah Melton, Kimberly C. Kowal

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Abstract

Abstract:In 2018, the Boston College Libraries launched a fund totaling $20,000 per semester to support affiliated researchers for their publications in open access (OA) journals. The BC OA Fund has experienced an increasing depletion rate as well as usage inefficiency. In this study, we seek to better understand these usage patterns by analyzing the OA applications received in the past three semesters. Specifically, we utilize two-sample t-tests and multiple linear regressions to perform a quantitative study of the depletion rate of the BC OA Fund and consider multiple factors affecting the efficiency of fund usage, including manuscript status, applicant's discipline, applicant's position, and co-authorship. Our results indicate that the OA Fund is becoming more popular within the BC community, especially among researchers in science and social science fields, and that a researcher's status as student and their co-authorship significantly improve usage efficiency.

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波士顿学院校园开放获取基金的统计分析

摘要：2018年，波士顿学院图书馆启动了一项每学期总计20000美元的基金，用于支持附属研究人员在开放获取（OA）期刊上发表文章。不列颠哥伦比亚省OA基金的消耗率不断上升，使用效率低下。在这项研究中，我们试图通过分析过去三个学期收到的OA应用程序来更好地理解这些使用模式。具体而言，我们利用两个样本t检验和多元线性回归对BC OA基金的消耗率进行了定量研究，并考虑了影响基金使用效率的多个因素，包括手稿状况、申请人的学科、申请人的职位和合著者。我们的研究结果表明，OA基金在不列颠哥伦比亚省社区中越来越受欢迎，尤其是在科学和社会科学领域的研究人员中，研究人员的学生身份及其合著者显著提高了使用效率。

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Library Trends INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

CiteScore

1.20

自引率

12.50%

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